Norm Macdonald is very sorry that the last time he was saying sorry—just yesterday—he also insulted people with Down syndrome.

It’s been a tough week for the comedian, who has been trying to promote his new Netflix program, Norm Macdonald has a Show, with ill-advised comments regarding the #MeToo movement and disgraced entertainers. It all started with an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, in which the comedian lamented what has happened to Louis C.K. and Roseanne Barr over the past year—both of whom, said Macdonald, “[lost] everything in a day.” (C.K. admitted last year to sexual misconduct involving multiple women, while Barr lost her ABC sitcom following a racist tweet.) “Of course, people will go, ‘What about the victims?’” Macdonald said. “But you know what? The victims didn’t have to go through that.”

Controversy erupted immediately, and by the time Macdonald was set to film an appearance on The Tonight Show that evening, NBC decided to bump him from the show instead. In an apology on The Howard Stern Show Wednesday, Macdonald managed to make things worse by saying, “You’d have to have Down syndrome to not feel sorry” for survivors of sexual misconduct.

Now, Macdonald would like to apologize for that misbegotten statement, which he called “unforgivable.”

Macdonald stopped by The View on Thursday for an appearance that had been scheduled before all of his controversial statements. Per Deadline, Macdonald told the hosts that during his interview with Howard Stern, he immediately knew he’d messed up: “It’s always bad when you have to apologize for the apology.” That, Deadline reports, was one of the lighter moments during the broadcast, when Macdonald appeared penitent, if nervous.

“There used to be a word we all used to say to mean ‘stupid’ that we don’t use anymore, and stupidly I was about to say that word and then stopped and thought [about] what’s the right word to say,” Macdonald said, adding that as soon as the words “Down syndrome” left his mouth, he knew they were “unforgivable.”

Addressing his #MeToo comments on Stern’s show Wednesday, Macdonald said he wished he never had to do interviews—especially print conversations. “They ask you questions that maybe you don’t want to answer. . . . I’m a fucking dumb guy. I get confused a lot and shit,” he told Stern. Meanwhile on Twitter, users have been resurfacing posts in which the he praised figures including Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson. It’s unclear if these posts are meant to be facetious.

As a comedian, Macdonald has long positioned himself as an anti-P.C. contrarian. In 2015, for instance, he courted controversy by joking about Caitlyn Jenner, tweeting, “This year the Oscars will have two hosts. My vote is for Bruce and Caitlin.” He later said that calling someone a cis man is “a way of marginalizing a normal person.” It’s a brand of transgressive humor that’s not uncommon among comedians of his generation, including figures like Bill Maher—although Macdonald himself probably would not love that comparison. Now, however, as comedy increasingly leaves that school of thought behind, it appears Macdonald is running into trouble. Whether or not this will affect his show, which will debut Friday on Netflix, remains to be seen.